The IT Manager

I have used a number of blogging engines over the years. I started off with Blogger, moved onto a self hosted Wordpress site and then onto the fully hosted solution offered by Squarespace (which is excellent btw).

Each solution had upsides and drawbacks. It was easy to outgrow Blogger. Wordpress was powerful but earlier versions were susceptible to hacking, plus managing plug-ins, MySQL and backups became a drag. Squarespace is superb, but the programmer in me yearned for more control.

I decided to look at some static blogging engines. My goals being:

All content should be pre-compiled to static web pages making the end result portable and quick to load

As much as possible, remove reliance on the server side web technology stack (PHP, MySQL etc.)